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The American Record The American Record Success Stories from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission NHPRC DOCUMENTING DEMOCRACY National Historical Publications and Records Commission National Archives and Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20408­0001 www.archives.gov/nhprc The American Record IIt has been called “the little agency with the big impact.” Through a modest, but catalytic, investment in our nation’s archives and his­ torical records, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) preserves and makes public the American Record. Established in 1934 along with the National Archives, the NHPRC has funded some 4,600 projects connecting Americans with the primary source materials of our history, culture, and democracy. The American Record is the sum of all the documents and records kept in family attics, housed in filing cabinets in church basements or county courthouses, managed in archives at the local historical society or at institu­ tions both private and public, and held in trust by government, including the Federal treasures at the National Archives. The American Record can be found in diaries and letters, in ships’ registers of immigrants, in military muster rolls, the census, deeds to properties, and documents formalizing the transition from slavery to freedom. The American Record can be seen in the millions of faces captured by film, heard in audio recordings, and viewed in billions of digitized and born­digital bytes on the Internet. Through all these testimonies of the past, the American Record captures the countless voices that make up the nation’s unique and compelling story. Grants from the NHPRC are awarded on an annual basis through several competitive funding categories: archives projects, digitizing historical records, electronic records, publishing historical records, professional development, and state archival partnerships. Each of these initiatives is designed to increase public access to the American Record. ii Archives and Historical Records The collective American Record is embedded in the millions of documents and records that helped establish the nation and marked our progress. The NHPRC funds projects that help the nation’s archives organize historical records and manuscripts, catalog and describe them to make them known and available for use, and store them properly to ensure their longevity into the future. Thousands of archival projects at local government archives, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit institutions have been supported. These archives enable scholars and students, family and local historians, journalists, documentary filmmakers, and many others to use original source materials. Approximately half of the NHPRC’s funds have helped preserve and make accessible literally millions of cubic feet of historical documents. One of the hallmarks of the NHPRC approach has been to reach out beyond traditional collection policies. Joan Krizack of Northeastern University writes that “Early on, the NHPRC recognized the importance of and became a leader in the effort to broaden archival documentation to include underrepresented groups.” Grants have helped to Establish or modernize public records programs in state and local governments. A few such examples include Troup County, Georgia; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Lauderdale County, Mississippi; and in metropolitan centers like Seattle, Boston, San Diego, and San Antonio. Preserve and make accessible oral history and tribal records of American Indian tribes—including the Seneca, Blackfoot, Oglala Sioux, Zuni Pueblo, Fort Sill Apache, Suquamish, and dozens more. iii Support nonprofit institutions that enhance public access to historical documents in their care. The NHPRC has awarded in excess of $50 million for collections of personal papers, photographic collections of all types, architectural plans and drawings, ship designs, film and video footage, and sound recordings. Electronic Records One of the first funders to recognize the importance of electronic records, the NHPRC has seeded preservation research and development—from a major multiyear, international effort known as the InterPARES project to the Meta­ Archives to develop services for organizations facing the challenge of preserving this new kind of record. From e­mail to geospatial maps, the range of electronic records defies easy preservation solutions. Every year, state governments, universities, and other nonprofit institutions turn to the NHPRC for grants to manage their electronic records, and the Commission is part of a government­wide effort to handle the deluge of data, the obsolescence of software and hardware, and the breadth and scope of electronic records. Peter Hirtle, Senior Policy Advisor at Cornell University Library, credits the NHPRC with identifying the research needs for electronic records: From its support for major research projects . to its contributions in support of practicing electronic records archivists, the NHPRC has to a large extent guided the agenda for the most fundamental issue facing contemporary archivists. Digitization The NHPRC initiated a program to fund digitization projects in the fall of 2006, with a primary focus on making primary historical records freely accessible via the Web. Examples of Commission­supported projects include the iv Archives of Michigan’s Civil War military service records; the University of Florida’s collections on the exploration, development, and conservation of the Everglades from 1878 to 1929; and the Railroad Commission of Texas’s records on the Oil Boom of the 1930s. Individuals who have contributed to the American story are also the subject of digitization projects, including 20th­ century environmentalist Aldo Leopold; Henry A. Wallace, FDR’s Vice President and the Progressive Party candidate for President in 1948; and Samuel A. Goudsmit (1921–1979), the renowned physicist who headed the team investigating Germany’s progress in developing the atomic bomb during World War II. Publishing Historical Records Over the course of a generation, the Commission has supported a remarkable body of multivolume editions documenting the American Record. Documentary editions, a special form of historical scholarship, combine collected papers, authoritative transcriptions of correspondence to and from significant historical figures, interpretative introductions, and annotations to produce a multidi­ mensional view. Virtually every aspect of the story of American democracy— great leaders, historical eras, social movements—has been funded. As a cornerstone to American history, the papers from the Founding Era of our nation are national treasures and a public monument to statesmen and patriots. Other important figures from U.S. history are the subjects of documen­ tary editions—such as Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, and George C. Marshall. Papers of social reformers and civil rights leaders include those of Jane Addams, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more. Scientists, humanists, and explorers include Thomas Edison, John Muir, and John Franklin Jameson, who played a leading role in creating the National Archives and the Commission. In addition to funding the editorial work, the NHPRC has invested in a publishing subvention program that supports nonprofit presses to help defray the costs of publishing the print editions. v State and National Archival Partnership (SNAP) This unique program has created partnerships with state historical records advisory boards and with state archives to help ensure that primary source materials are preserved. One often­used mechanism for this effort is a regrant program, in which the state boards, using NHPRC grants, administer statewide competitions to find worthwhile archival projects. Other grants have gone to help state archives plan, survey, and implement new strategies, and most recently to act as a national archival network in developing preparedness and recovery plans for collections damaged by natural disasters. Pat Michaelis of the Kansas State Historical Society writes that the NHPRC “has made its money go farther and has reached more diverse audiences than most federal agencies.” At least two states—Rhode Island and Idaho—appointed their first professional state archivists as a result of NHPRC­sponsored studies, and several reports made successful arguments for new state archives buildings in New Mexico, South Carolina, and Delaware. While planning might seem dull to some, according to Richard Earney, former Wisconsin State Archivist: This work over decades [has] inculcated and supported the application of strategic, analytical thinking to the management of historical records and helped to move . American archival institutions and practitioners away from our older atomistic and uncoordinated views and practices. The stories contained in this booklet are but a small fraction of the successful projects supported by the NHPRC. Hundreds of meticulously crafted documentary editions have been produced, and millions of papers, pho­ vi tographs, sound recordings, and other documents have been saved. As a result, millions of our fellow citizens have a deeper understanding of our nation’s history. Established 75 years ago, and in the midst of its fifth decade of grant­making, the Commission looks forward to continuing to lead the way in preserving and making public the American Record. For more information about the programs of the NHPRC and how your organization might apply for a grant, please feel
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